Council offers hope for community college

The financially-ruined Community College East Gippsland could be reopened under new operators.

The cash-strapped college shut its doors and was placed into voluntary administration last month, affecting more than 100 students and tens of staff.

However, now the East Gippsland Shire Council says it wants to buy the college's former campus off its owners, the Victorian Government.

East Gippsland Shire Council chief executive Steve Kozlowski says the council wants the building to stay open as an educational and community facility and leased to a new registered training organisation.

"Hopefully if that occurred and we were able to secure the site, then we might be able to see that it's business as usual in a sense," he said.